[Peter T. Daniels]

Depends how precise Leane needs to be -- In Chicago style, for
instance, there can be up to three authors per reference, and if there
are more than three you use "et al."

On Jan 9, 2:05*am, "macropod" wrote:
Hi Peter,

Don't you get the same effect just by toggling Show/Hide Hidden Text?

No. Only changing the print setting affects the word count. You can verify this with a NUMWORDS field.

Assuming the references are in a form like (Tinsley, 1965, p15) or (Tinsley, 1965), one could probably use a wildcard Find/Replace
to make the references hidden, with-
Find: \([!\,]{1,10}\, [0-9]{3}[!\)]{1,}\)
Replace: ^&
and the replacement text set to hidden.

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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ...
Don't you get the same effect just by toggling Show/Hide Hidden Text?
The problem is still marking all those discontinuous globs of text.

On Jan 8, 10:41 pm, "macropod" wrote:



Hi Peter,

Hidden text *is* counted when the print hidden text option is active. This gives one the ability to mark the references as hidden
text and, by toggling between the print/not print hidden text options, get the word count or print the document with/without
hidden
text.

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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
...
Not without considerable tedium, though it might be possible to create
a macro to do this?

Using Ctrl-Clicking and dragging, select all but the references (when
text is selected, word displays the count of selected text: if not
directly in the status bar, then when you click on the count number
there); or, format each reference as Hidden text. (Word doesn't count
Hidden text.)

On Jan 8, 3:03 pm, Leane_88
wrote:

Hi,
I'm writing an essay in which the tutor would like us to not include the
references (Author and Date) within the word count. Is there a way that I can
exclude any words within the brackets from the word count as they all have
different names etc?
Thanks
Leane--